Mission Statement

No Animal Poaching has two, complementary missions. Part One: To collect and disseminate all available news stories (globally, but English-only stories for the time being) about all forms of animal poaching--from something as seemingly "minor" and as relatively inconspicuous as an individual arrested for fishing without a license, to something as brash and unambiguous as organized crime syndicates who spend all of their time in the detestable quest of annihilating every last member of a given specie--all of these news items will be brought together and catalogued in order to form an extensive database from which the public can be readily informed and updated about such incessant, inexcusable behavior on a day-to-day basis.

Part Two: To provide a forum to discuss why this is taking place, and why it is on the rise. Many individuals/societies all across the globe purchase (and in certain cases utilize and/or eat) the body parts of poached animals, believing these items can cure specific diseases, and/or these individuals are convinced that the consumption of these wild, increasingly endangered animals is in no way any different than, say, eating farm-raised animals bred specifically for human diets. In the same vein, many people collect exotic pets and/or selected animal body parts as trophies--e.g., ivory, antlers, pelts, etc.--ignorant of the harsh realities--the crude, illegal, terribly vicious manner--in which such "novelty pets" and “farmed” wildlife body parts are in fact obtained.

This tragic story--and the harsh truth about these cruel, abhorrent practices--needs to be communicated and better understood, and then it must be circulated as widely as possible in an effort to educate the purchasing/consuming end-users of these animals (and animal body parts) about the dire circumstances and vile conditions involved in the poaching of animals, and/or in keeping exotic animals as pets, and/or buying wild animal body parts whether for display or for culinary uses. Ironically, these animals are all protected under scores of local, national, regional, and international laws & treaties but, more often than not, the purchasers/consumers of such animals (or of their harvested, body organs) are unaware that their buying/dietary habits and their cultural traditions are putting so many animal endangered species at risk of extinction. This, then, is the mission of No Animal Poaching.